https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/05/220523115522.htm

In a study published online March 28 in the INFORMS journal Management Science, Dr. Andrew Frazelle, assistant professor of operations management in the Naveen Jindal School of Management, and co-authors Dr. Pnina Feldman of Boston University and Dr. Robert Swinney of Duke University examined how to best structure relationships between food-delivery platforms and the restaurants with which they partner.

Other platforms in the sharing economy, such as ride-hailing and vacation-rental services, allow people to sell access to resources that would otherwise be generating no revenue for them, Frazelle said. The interests of the resource owner and the platform are reasonably well aligned in that more transactions are good for both.